The iPad Pro for college students is a great productivity tool, but it needs a few apps to become indispensable. This seven-page infographic explores the best iPad apps for the college student to use in textbook and note-taking, photo annotation and editing, Web browsing and reading, PDF editing, collaboration and note-taking, document creation and work management, music listening and editing, social media management, watching videos, taking notes on the go, Read My Mind: Book For Kids: A unique fun way for kids to learn about their emotions.
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Best Apps For Ipad Pro College Students
Maintain Your Sanity and Never Miss a Beat with iStudiez Pro– $2.99
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This app is a true one-stop shop for the college student. An excellent scheduler, this tool will help you manage time better than ever before. A single calendar and task list to track classes, meetings, assignments, grades and social events will keep you on-task no matter how busy you become. Simple syncing across platforms keeps you organized and ready for anything using your iPad, iPhone and Mac.
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Take Your Pick with Rate My Professor– Free
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Among the many wonderful aspects of the Internet, few are more valuable than the ability to read user reviews. Today, more than ever before, you can shop, dine, travel and more with confidence, knowing the satisfaction level of prior users before you take the plunge. Now, you can apply this same powerful dynamic each term when you register for classes. Rate My Professor gathers useful reviews on the performance of professors at more than 6,000 colleges around the nation, so you’ll never have to guess which class or section is right for you. What could be better than 5-star dining? How about a 5-star multi-variable calculus professor?
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Write Well with Smart Writing Tool 7notes HD Premium – $7.99
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This app features the most advanced handwriting recognition technology available, and also indulges your creative side with multicolor text and illustration. Take hand written notes on your iPad with a stylus, your finger or whatever catches your fancy. Smart Writing Tool 7notes HD Premium instantly converts your scribblings to text and gives you a variety of export methods, including Dropbox and Evernote. You can also easily post your notes to Twitter and Facebook. It’s no problem to mix and match hand written and digital text to customize and personalize each note. The app not only recognizes and converts your handwriting, but also includes a state-of-the-art predictive engine to dramatically increase note taking speed. If typing seems bland and gets you down, this is the answer.
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Tie Up Loose Ends with Easy Bib – Free
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When you’re assigned a paper, it’s likely that the thing you dread the most is creating the bibliography. Gathering all of the identifying information for your references and formatting it properly are extremely tedious parts of an already time-consuming and challenging task. You may never fear the bibliography again, however, once you sign on to Easy Bib. This app allows you to snap a picture of the bar code for your reference material (or type in the name or ISBN #) and it then magically creates a full bibliographic reference. You choose the format, selecting from MLA, APA or Chicago. E-mail the finished product to yourself, paste it into your masterpiece, and you’re good to go.
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Grab and Go with Text Grabber + Translator – $5.99
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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology embedded in this app allows for highly accurate text capture by simply taking a picture of most any printed text. You can quickly edit captured text, or hear it spoken, andText Grabber can recognize and translate to and from 40 languages. Send your text via SMS or email, or post it easily to social media sites. It looks like the days of cumbersome re-typing are over.
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Travel Made Easy with Hipmunk – Free
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This slick meta-search tool gathers flight and hotel options from all the leading travel sites in one simple interface. You can quickly find the lowest prices with this app, and its unique layout also allows you to easily find flights with WiFi. You can sort flights by “agony” level, viewing connections, layovers and overall flight time in a visual timeline format. Hipmunk allows you to easily view Trip Advisor hotel reviews and to compare hotel amenities. In addition, you can save up to 60% on rooms with Hipmunk’s “Tonight Deals”. Travel is a part of the college experience, whether it’s a trip back home, a semester abroad or that much-needed spring break getaway. Hipmunk is an awesome travel companion.
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Take a Break with Crackle – Free
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All work and no play sucks. College is all about hard work, but you have to find time for recreation too. This app is just the ticket, offering free access to a huge catalog of uncut movies and TV shows from Columbia, Screen Gems, Sony and Tri-Star, just to name a few. ;Crackle even has a generous collection of the best Anime. Down time is hard to come by in college, so having access to this kind of quality entertainment on your iPad is a real plus, and can help you achieve that ever-elusive work/play balance.
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Do it All with iWork for iPad – $9.99 each for Pages, Numbers and Keynote
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Last but far from least is Apple’s very own productivity suite. Pages, Numbers & Keynote are all optimized for the iPad, and they are powerful, innovative tools for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. These cousins to the full Mac software versions are more than robust, and will meet the needs of the most demanding college student.
Best free ipad apps for students
- NOTES PLUS
This nifty app enables you to go completely paperless! It allows users to convert handwriting into typed text and has an automatic shape detection, ideal for note taking during lectures. The conversion tool means you can scribble down as much as you can as quickly as possible and not have to worry about retyping it out later. Notes Plus lets you insert images from your photo gallery or directly from the camera, and if you want to import a PDF or DOC file to annotate, it has that function too.
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You’ll never run out of space when writing either, as you can keep scrolling with your finger endlessly as you write more. If you make a mistake, simply scribble it out with your Apple Pencil and it disappears!
- ULYSSES
This particular app is fab for those studying Creative Writing or Journalism, or for those who just simply love to write! The library holds everything you’ll ever write and is equipped for managing writing projects of all sizes whether that be a novel or a poem.
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With iCloud, your whole library syncs back and fourth with the connected devices, so you can work on your writing anywhere whether that be on your Mac or iPhone. What’s really cool about this app, is that it can turn your writing into a beautiful looking PDF, Word document and eBook. You can export the content to HTML ready for you to publish anywhere and can even publish to WordPress if you fancy working on your blog.
- MICROSOFT APPS
You’ll always need access to some form of Microsoft App at uni, whether that be Outlook to check your emails or Microsoft Word to work on that essay you’ve been dreading!
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The iPad Pro also allows you to have a ‘split view’ on your device, so if you want to have your email open whilst working on a project on PowerPoint, you can. Remember though, you will have to have a qualifying Office 365 plan, all being well it should work with your university email address.
- FANTASTICAL 2
This app is brilliant at organizing your events in a list, whether that be a month or week view, all on the same screen. There’s also a reminder feature within the app just in case you need that extra nudge when an assignment is due! You can use it across all your other Apple products too, whether that be your iPhone or Mac.
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It enables you to add your existing calendar accounts directly to the app and keep all your events in sync. Another great feature of Fantastical is that it lets you quickly upload files or images from the app to your iCloud, Google, or Exchange events. When scheduling an event with invitees, the app lets you see their availability to help you find a time that works for everyone, which is very handy for scheduling study time or group work with your uni pals.
- EVERNOTE
We all love a good to-do list! This app is one of the best-known apps for planning tasks and events. It has the ability to add video and attatch Word documents and PDFs to your to-do lists. You can organise tasks and set reminders to share with fellow students.
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